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Lifelong learner rediscovering academia 📖 Currently: reading classic lit and learning Japanese ✍️

[darkroomnerd]

The 2 for $1 sale at my local library never disappoints 📚

Starling House is a gift for my mom so she can have her own copy, but the rest are books I haven't gotten around to reading yet. It's going to be a very literary summer!

[shanewearyourreeboks]

reading wuthering heights simply so i have informed ground to hate on the movie when it comes out

[lovewanttimetopause]

[is-this-taken-too-questionmark]

I think that the best part about learning a new language is that it effectively doubles your ability to Just Do Whatever. You can buy a book that looks interesting but isn't available in your native language. You can research your favourite topics and have twice the amount of resources as before. You can make new friends. You can laugh at puns that are impossible to translate into any other language. You can ask for help, negotiate, bargain for stuff, stay informed. You can listen to new music and read new poems and be in awe of not just the sound, but the meaning of the words as well. So many new opportunities for you to find joy and be free to do whatever you want!!!

[ohvoyager]

Remember to always carry a Shirley Jackson book with you. Just in case.

[darkroomnerd]

Cozy autumn days make me want to sink into a good book and put off all of the work I have to do for my actual job 🍁📖

[darkroomnerd]

2025 tree update 🍁🍂

[grendelsmilf]

I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

[enchantedbook]

'Her Majesty led this strange orchestra' by Rosina Emmet Sherwood, 1888.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

A great book spine design.

[pefkaes]

14.05.2025 // catching up with readings

love all the reading I've been doing lately. it is also exciting to see my library build up over the years, especially now that I can afford to buy some of the books I have wanted for years. recommendations from friends and acquaintances have also helped me expand my reading choices beyond my usual categories and genres. the tbr list keeps growing and it's a reason to live for.

[darkroomnerd]

If you know you know

[pjharvey]

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

[darkroomnerd]

The violent whiplash of finishing a chapter of Anne of Green Gables and then immediately picking up Parable of the Sower halfway through where I left off 🫨

what is wrong with me lol

[energyprison]

no i didnt get that from a video essay im a little more well read than that thanks. i got it from the abstract for a study i didnt read the rest of

[lapetitsyrene]

I should be allowed into every museum’s archives actually

[starbuck]

reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.

[honourablejester]

Some of them you're still going to bounce off, not everything has your exact jam in it, and execution does count for a lot. But yeah. Take a chance on older stuff, there's a lot of really awesome ones out there.

[corvid-language-library]

I asked my supervisor - who has lived in Japan for 17 years, speaks fluent Japanese and reads Japanese documents/emails on a daily basis for work/general life (including helping us with complicated official paperwork) - how to read a fairly basic word (人物 - じんぶつ). He stared at it for a moment and was like, yeah I'm not actually 100% sure.

It's an N3 word btw, but those kanji are N4.

If someone who's fluent in Japanese and has lived in Japan for 17 years and is generally pretty interested in languages doesn't always remember how to read N3 vocab then you really don't need to kick yourself for not remembering all the kanji readings all the time.